-第一学期期末测试卷八年级英语阅读理解(一)（本题共19小题，每题2分，共38分）A阅读下列短文，从各题所给旳四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 Passage 1 More and more people are using cars in many places in Africa today. However, things are different in Malawi( 马拉维 ).Bikes are the most popular in this African country.Bike riding is a way of life in Malawi. People use them to carry heavy things. They also use bikes to carry people, especially tourists. These years, taking a “bicycle taxi” to travel around Malawi has become quite popular among tourists from all over the world.If you go to Malawi, you will find a lot of bike taxis waiting on the sides of the roads. The riders make the bikes comfortable for passengers to sit on. You can jump on a bike taxi and get around at a very low cost.Alice is a 21-year-old student from Canada. She enjoys the special bike riding a lot. “I really like the bike taxi,” she says. “Its easy and cheap.” Alice usually pays just $1 for going shopping in town.28-year-old Panjira Khombe began to ride a bike taxi two years ago. The young man enjoys this job. “I used to make boats for a living, but thats a hard job. Being a bike taxi rider is easy for me and I dont mind carrying heavy people,” he says.27. Bikes are the most popular way for people to get somewhere in _.A. AfricaB. AsiaC. MalawiD. Hawaii28. From the passage we learn that people there dont use bikes to carry _.A. heavy thingsB. local peopleC. animalsD. tourists29. Alice enjoys the bike taxi because its _.A. always waiting on the sides of the roads B. popular all over the world C. safe and interesting D. easy and cheap30. Panjira Khombe thinks that _.A. traveling is comfortable B. making boats is difficult C. riding a bike taxi is cheap D. carrying heavy people is enjoyable 31. Whats the best title for this passage?A. Bike Riders B. A Strange Country C. Bike TaxisD. A Cheap Journey Passage 2More Than A ZooPopcorn Park is a very special place. Workers at the zoo care for hurt or sick （生病旳）animals. At first this unusual place was not a zoo. It was called the Forked River Animal Care Center. The workers there took care of lost or unwanted cats and dogs.The change began in 1977 when a raccoon (浣熊)needed help. The workers cared for the animal. Finally it was better, but it could not care for itself. So people had to allow the raccoon to live at the center.After that, people began taking all kinds of hurt or homeless animals there. So many animals were living at the center that it became more like a zoo. It was time for a new name.Popcorn Park Zoo got its funny name because many of the animals there like to eat popcorn (爆米花). Also workers at the zoo sell the popcorn to help make money to care for the animals. People buy the popcorn to feed the animals as well.Popcorn Park Zoo now takes care of more than 200 kinds of animals. All the animals at the zoo get lots of care and love. 32. Workers at the zoo look after _.A. only homeless cats and dogsB. hurt or sick animalsC. all the unwanted cats and dogsD. young or old animals33. Which animal was the first to live at the zoo?A. An unwanted dog. B. An unwanted cat. C. A raccoon. D. A tiger.34. The zoo got its name because _.A. the popcorn at the zoo tastes best B. workers at the zoo like to eat popcornC. many animals there like to eat popcorn D. visitors can make popcorn themselves there 35. From the text we can know that _.A. the zoo was a very famous park in the past B. people look after the animals well at the zoo C. the zoo spends much money feeding the animals D. animals at the zoo dont want to go back to their natural homes36. This passage probably comes from _.A. a science bookB. a travel magazineC. a weather reportD. a history book Passage 3The Story of the Two FrogsA group of frogs were traveling through the forests, and two of them fell into a deep hole. When the other frogs saw how deep the hole was, they told the pair that they were as good as dead. The two frogs ignored（忽视） what they said and tried to jump up and out of the hole. The other frogs kept telling them to stop, that they were as good as dead. Finally, one of the frogs followed what the other frogs were saying and gave up. He fell down and died. The other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Once again, the other frogs shouted at him to stop the pain and just wait to die. He jumped even harder until finally he made it out. The other frogs were astonished（吃惊） and said, Didnt you hear us? The frog told them that he was deaf and that he thought they were encouraging（鼓励） him all the time.The story teaches us a lesson: There is the power（力量） of life and death in the language we use, and in what we say, and in how we say it. So be careful of what you say. 3